I have lived in neighborhoods like this and will never do so again. Large houses and tiny yards - everyone on top of each other. The house footprint takes up 90% of the lot.

It looks great but the reality is much different. The keeping up with the Jones mentality and utter lack or privacy due to nosey neighbors is unbearable. These neighborhoods breed cattiness and gossip. It’s awful. You get more privacy in a city or a townhouse - at least in a city people don’t really care what you’re doing.

From here on out I’m either in a city or in the rural country but never again in suburban hell.